History of Pass Christian, (Harrison County) Mississippi United States of America

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William Greenleaf Eliot, educator, was born in New Bedford, Mass., Aug. 5, 1811; son of William Greenleaf and ?? Dawes Eliot, and brother of Thomas Dawes Eliot. He was graduated from Columbia college, D.C., in 1681, and from Harvard divinity school in 1834. He was instructor in Hebrew at Harvard, 1833-34, and in 1834 became pastor of the Unitarian Church of the Messiah, St. Louis, Mo., where he remained until 1872. He was president of the board of directors of Washington university, St. Louis, from its organization in 1854 until 1872, when he became chancellor of the institution, at the same time holding the chair of civil polity. He was a corresponding member of the Massachusetts historical society. Harvard conferred upon him the degree of S.T.D. in 1854. He published: Manual of Prayer (1851); Discourses on the Doctrines of Christianity (1852; 22d ed., 1686); Lectures to Young Men (1853; 11th ed., 1882); Lectures to Young Women (1853; 13th ed.,1880); The Unity of God (1854);. Early Religious Education (1855); The Discipline of Sorrow (1855); The Story of Archer Alexander, from Slavery to Freedom (1885); and addresses and contributions to periodicals. He died at Pass Christian, Miss., Jan. 23, 1887.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Francis Wayland Parker, educator, was born at Piscataquog, N.H., Oct. 9, 1837; son of Robert and Mille (Rand) Parker; grandson of William and Nabby (Parker) Parker, and of Deacon Jonathan and Sarah (Abbott) Rand; and a descendant of Thomas Parker, the immigrant, 1635. He was brought up on a farm, and in 1850 entered the academy at Mt. Vernon, where he paid his tuition by working on a farm during the summers. He taught school in New Hampshire, 1854-58 and then in Carrollton, Ill., until 1861, when he entered the 4th New Hampshire volunteers as a private, subsequently attaining the rank of lieutenant-colonel. At Deep Bottom, Va., July 26, 1864, he was severely wounded and taken prisoner and was not released till April 1865. He was brevetted colonel, Aug. 16, 1864, and mustered out in August, 1865. He was principal of the grammar school in Manchester, N.H., 1865-68; of the district schools in Dayton, Ohio, 1868-71, and studied psychology, philosophy, history and pedagogy at King William's university, Berlin, 1871-73. He was superintendent of the schools at Quincy, Mass., 1873-80, where he applied his methods begun in Dayton, Ohio, founded on the theories of Comenius, Pestalozzi, and Fr?bel, and his influence soon extended all over the country. He was supervisor of schools in Boston, Mass., 1880-83; principal of the Cook county, Ill., normal school, 1883-95, and of the Chicago, Ill., normal school, 1895-99, and in the latter year became president of the Chicago Institute, founded by Mrs. Emmons McCormick Blaine in 1899 and affiliated with the University of Chicago, 1901. He was married Dec. 1, 1864, to Phene H., daughter of Gilbert Perry Hall of Bennington, N.H., who died in 1871; and secondly, Nov. 23, 1882, to Mrs. Frank Stuart, daughter of Calvin and Dorothy Stuart of Boston, Mass. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the inauguration by him of the "Quincy movement" was celebrated at Quincy, Mass., April, 1900. He was one of the founders and the first president of the Illinois Society for Child Study, the first organization of its kind in the United States: and editor of: The Elementary School Teacher and Course of Study, a publication begun at the Cook County normal school and continued at the Chicago Institute and the University of Chicago. Dartmouth conferred upon him the honorary degree of A.M. in 1886, and Lawrence university gave him that of LL.D. He is the author of: Talks on Teaching (1883); The Practical Teacher (1884); Course in Arithmetic (1884); How to Teach Geography (1885); Outlines in Geography (1885); How to Study Geography (1889); Talks on Pedagogics (1894); Uncle Robert's Geography (1898). He died at Pass Christian, Miss., March 2, 1902.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

John Henderson, senator, was born probably in New York or Ohio in 1795. He was a friend and contemporary of John A. Quitman, and both these young lawyers appear in Mississippi the same year, 1821. Henderson located in Woodville, the capital of Wilkinson county, while Quitman settled at Memphis, the capital of the adjacent county. Henderson was a representative in the state legislature in 1835 and a U.S. senator, 1839-45. He favored the annexation of Texas and the conquest of Mexico and Cuba, and with Governor Quitman was complicated in the Lopez filibustering expedition. In 1851 the two men were arrested and tried before the U.S. district court in New Orleans for violating the neutrality laws of 1818, and were both acquitted. Henderson died at Pass Christian, Miss., in 1857.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

James Albert Harrison, philologist, was born in Pass Christian, Miss., Aug. 21, 1848; son of Jilson Payne and Sidney (Norton) Harrison; and a descendant of Col. Charles Mynn Thruston of the Revolutionary army. He was graduated at the University of Virginia in 1866-68 and subsequently studied in Germany. He was professor of languages at Randolph-Macon college, 1871-76; declined the chair of English and modern languages in Vanderbilt university to which he was appointed in 1875; and held a similar chair, which also included modern history, in Washington and Lee university, 1876-95. Besides his duties in connection with Washington and Lee he delivered the lectures at Johns Hopkins on Anglo-Saxon poetry in 1883. He was called to Tulane university, New Orleans, La., on its organization in 1885, but declined. In 1895 he accepted the chair of Romance languages in the University of Virginia and was transferred to the chair of Teutonic languages in 1899. He was chairman of the editorial committee and vice-president of the Modern Language association and a member of the American philological association. Columbia college gave him the degree of L.H.D. in 1887 and Washington and Lee that of LL.D. in 1896. He conceived and edited the Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry (5 vols., 1882-97) and is the author of: Group of Poets and Their Haunts (1874); Greek Vignettes (1875); Spain in Profile (1878); History of Spain (1881); new ed., 1898); Story of Greece (1885); and Autrefois: Tales of Old New Orleans (1888); and editor of Heine's Reisebilder (1883), of Mme. de S?vign?'s Letters (1899), of An Anglo-Saxon Poetical Dictionary (1885); of Beowulf (1882; 4th ed., 1894), of French Syntax (1882), of An Anglo-Saxon Reader (1898); one of the editors of the Century Dictionary and of the Standard Dictionary besides contributing to the leading literary periodicals.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor